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By CHISATO TANAKA and MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press OSAKA, Japan (AP) — A fire that spread from a fourth-floor mental clinic in an eight-story…
Continue ReadingBy CHISATO TANAKA and MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press OSAKA, Japan (AP) — A fire that spread from a fourth-floor mental clinic in an eight-story…
Continue ReadingBy Rob Frehse and Evan Simko-Bednarski, CNN A federal judge has overturned the opioid settlement of more than $4 billion that gave the Sackler family…
Continue ReadingALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York’s ethics commission has more work to do if it wants to seize the millions of dollars former Gov. Andrew Cuomo earned…
Continue ReadingBy LYNN ELBER AP Television Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — “Sex and the City” actor Chris Noth has been accused of sexually assaulting two…
Continue ReadingBy PAUL J. WEBER Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas’ Republican governor has told Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin that the state will not…
Continue ReadingBOWLING GREEN, Ky. (AP) — Authorities say the body of a Kentucky teenager has been found after a tornado ravaged her neighborhood. Nyssa Brown was…
Continue ReadingTORONTO (AP) — Bars, restaurants, retail stores and entertainment venues across the Canadian province of Quebec will be required to operate at 50%…
Continue ReadingBy JOHN FLESHER AP Environmental Writer TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) — A new federal regulation requires higher safety standards for pipelines…
Continue ReadingSYDNEY (AP) — The premier of Australia’s most populous state says he is not considering lockdowns or other restrictions as a record 2,213 new…
Continue ReadingAKRON, Ohio (AP) — Two South Florida men have pleaded guilty in Ohio to leading a nationwide scheme to fraudulently obtain over $35 million in…
Continue ReadingBy EVA VERGARA Associated Press SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — The widow of Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet has died in the apartment where she led a…
Continue ReadingBy Ashley Strickland, CNN The isolated Faroe Islands were once home to an unknown population in 500 AD, about 350 years before Vikings ever arrived,…
Continue ReadingBy GEOFF MULVIHILL Associated Press A federal judge has rejected OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma’s sweeping deal to settle thousands of lawsuits over…
Continue ReadingWASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration is asking the Supreme Court to block lower court orders that are keeping President Joe Biden’s vaccine…
Continue ReadingBy Emma Tucker, CNN Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot did not purposefully conceal any information about a botched raid in 2019 at a social worker’s…
Continue ReadingSAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A major California utility has agreed to more than half a billion dollars in fines and penalties related to five wildfires in…
Continue ReadingSYDNEY (AP) — Christmas lights have been turned off and a candlelight vigil was held in the Australian town where five children died after falling…
Continue ReadingBy Amy Simonson, Amir Vera, Gregory Lemos, Leslie Holland and Kay Jones, CNN Two suspects are in custody and have been charged in the ambush shooting…
Continue ReadingA Baltimore police officer was ambushed in the early morning hours when an assailant “apparently walked up somewhere from the rear of the [police]…
Continue ReadingBy MARY CLARE JALONICK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The House committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection is subpoenaing James P.…
Continue ReadingBy CAROLYN THOMPSON Associated Press Educators have announced plans to increase security in response to TikTok posts warning of shooting and bomb…
Continue ReadingBy KEVIN McGILL Associated Press Writer NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A Louisiana appeal court says the man who killed former NFL player Joe McKnight cannot…
Continue ReadingBy LISA MASCARO and FARNOUSH AMIRI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Despite months of being courted and cajoled, Sen. Joe Manchin is still not a…
Continue ReadingNEW YORK (AP) — Emmy-award winning actor, writer and producer Keegan-Michael Key will host the “NFL Honors” show on Feb. 10, when The…
Continue ReadingBy ALAN FRAM Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate parliamentarian says a Democratic effort to let millions of immigrants remain…
Continue ReadingWASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate parliamentarian has said a Democratic effort to let millions of immigrants remain temporarily in the U.S. should be…
Continue ReadingBy GARY D. ROBERTSON Associated Press RALEIGH. N.C. (AP) — A prominent U.S. Senate candidate in North Carolina has withdrawn from next year’s…
Continue ReadingBy KATE BRUMBACK and JEFF AMY Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — An official with Rivian Automotive said the company was attracted to Georgia’s…
Continue ReadingST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — A Minnesota woman suspected of shooting at strangers in vehicles over the last few months is facing four charges of…
Continue ReadingBy JIM MUSTIAN Associated Press Michael Cohen claims in a new lawsuit that Donald Trump retaliated against him for writing his tell-all memoir last…
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